IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Woodbridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958MA015002
  • User Pedon ID: S1958MA015002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0459
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32987
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 42.2909611
  • Std. Longitude: -72.2855250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Ware, Fisherdick Road, Juda farm, hayfield east side of road and 1/4 mile north of power line. Pinpointed on soil survey field sheet DPB-3H-19, coordinated 1.7X - 8.4Y inches, scale 1:15840. Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
  • Map Unit: 307C—Paxton fine sandy loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, extremely stony
  • State: Massachusetts
  • County: MA015—Hampshire
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MA610—Hampden and Hampshire Counties, Massachusetts, Eastern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42072-C3—Winsor Dam, Massachusetts

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Edwood J. Pedersen, Joe Kubota, Fredrick A. Filios, and Stephen J. Zayach.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Woodbridge
  • PSC - 25 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/17/2014
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Woodbridge
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till derived from granite
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    64 - 117

    - 53 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    aquic conditions

    densic contact

    densic materials

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—15

    38—117

    38—117

    64—

    64—117

    64—117

    —15—

    —79—

    —79—

    —-

    —53—

    —53—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

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    —

    226

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    15

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03423
    Bw1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03424
    Bw2—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and medium faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; 1 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A03425
    Bw3—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; medium faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, iron-manganese masses and fine distinct 7.5YR (7.5YR) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 11 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A03426. Included in the lower part of this horizon is a loamy fine sand A'2g horizon that is 0 to 1 inches thick.
    Cd—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak thick platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions and coarse faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; 1 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 9 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A03427. Temperature 18.5 degrees Celsius.
    Cdg—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and brown (5Y 5/2) fine sandy loam; weak and moderate fine platy structure; friable; coarse prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, iron-manganese masses and medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; 1 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 9 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A03428